The Parfait Dress

My husband and I just spent the weekend on the Sunshine Coast which was lovely. We spent Saturday at the Blackall Range, walking, eating, singing along to cheesy songs in the car and on Sunday we explored the coast, played in the waves, explored rock pools and are lots of fish and chips, it was bliss.

I had been trying to get the parfait dress finished in time for this trip and I succeeded! So, feeling like a right twit I had my husband take some photos of me on the beach, so here you go.

This dress was a challenge, technically it is not that hard but for some reason nothing really wanted to come together on it for me. I documented some of the trials here. But it has mostly worked out, my solution to the brozen zipper is less then ideal, I am using a necklace clasp at the moment but I want to buy a soldering iron so will be able to fix it better then. I interfaced it with a silk organza to try keep it cool for summer, which worked really well so I might start doing that more. There are a few things I would change if I make it again, mainly, I would put the zip to the top of the dress (the pattern says to sew the seams for a couple of inches and then insert the zip) as I found it really hard to insert the zip with the dress already sewn together. I would also make some small adjustments to the way the midriff is constructed.

But, other then all of that I am happy with the way it has turned out, and I felt very stylish on the beach. I have already started cutting out the next project, the fabric is a riot, but more on that another time.